In the first month of the tenth year of Yongli, news of Li Dingguo breaking through the Tianzhou defense line came. In the former Manchu Qing Dynasty, the former Qing Dynasty Prince Pingnan Prince's Mansion, there was a secret room of the Nanhai Prince's Mansion in the Ming Dynasty. The Prince of Nanhai Prince Shang Kexi and Prince Shang Zhixin, Guangdong Censor Jin Guang, left-wing general Xu Erxian, right-wing general Ban Zhifu and other confidants gathered here.

The performance of the Shang family's father and son during Chen Wen's recovery of Nangan was nothing more than betting on both sides. However, when news of Chen Wen's two famous kings came, Shang Kexi couldn't hold back and had to repent and accept the title of the Ming court. In this way, the Huizhou Prefecture, Shaozhou Prefecture, the entire territory of Chaozhou Prefecture, and most of Guangzhou, which were nominally controlled by the Shang family, were completely connected.

"Father, the old man thief left a little early."

"It's indeed a bit early, but it's also a good thing to be early."

The word "old thief" is the contemptuous title of Li Dingguo by the Qing army in Guangdong. When Li Dingguo was still in Guangdong, they dared not do so, but now Li Dingguo has no more arrows to turn around. The internal strife between Sun and Li in Xiying is about to break out again. When the tiger leaves the mountain, he doesn't have to worry about anything.

The Shang family father and son asked and answered each question, but the golden light was not revealed, but they had already understood it in their hearts. The so-called "a little too early" must have an expected time, and this time will only appear if they have control. And these possibilities, as a confidant counselor, Jin Guang knew nothing about it, which was really incredible.

In fact, since the beginning of last year, Shang Kexi's trust in him has gradually declined. As for the reason, Jin Guang knew very well, that was, the patriarch of his clan asked someone to send him a letter, hoping that he would return to his hometown to serve under Chen Wen.

Jin Guang is a native of Qingcun, Yiwu County, Jinhua Prefecture. The descendants of the Qi family army in Jinhua are a staunch supporter of Chen Wen. The old patriarch of the Jin family in Qingcun was still in Yiwu as a representative of the descendants of the Qi family army. Now in the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the descendants of the Qi family army are also a force that cannot be ignored in the middle and lower-level military officers. Now, no matter how you look at it, Chen Wen is stronger. Therefore, the old patriarch of the Jin family hopes that he can occupy a favorable position for his clan in the civil service system, thereby achieving the prosperity of walking on two legs.

This is understandable. The family naturally hopes to produce more officials, whether civil officials or military generals. But Jin Guang himself is still hesitating. After all, his status in the Pingnan Prince's Mansion may not be able to be trusted even if he changes his ranks.

After reading this letter, he also expressed his loyalty to Shang Kexi calmly. However, another child of the Jin family escaped from the capital after Jiergalang's death and fled back to Jinhua. He was erected by Chen Wen as a typical example. Shang Kexi also saw this in the newspaper and then suspected it on his head.

On the surface, Shang Kexi was still as smart as he used to, but he was as smart as he was, but he could not feel the difference. Today, the conversation between the father and son of the Shang family confirmed this.

Just like Jin Guang, Xu Erxian and Ban Zhifu knew nothing about this. They were military generals and it was understandable that they did not participate in the conspiracy and planning. Seeing this, Shang Kexi nodded, and Shang Zhixin explained to the three people present.

"Last winter, Chen Wen fell into a bad reputation and captured Nanjing, and the news came that his father sent someone to express his willingness to correct his intentions. There were differences among them. First, we had to communicate with the old thief, and to gain the recognition of the Qin vassal, and with the endorsement of the court, Chen Wen's threat could be reduced. However, Chen Wen's strength is too strong now, not much worse than Emperor Taizu Gao of that year. His power follows it to prepare for the Northern Expedition, and our Nanhai County Prince's Mansion and Geng Jimao, Zhu Chenggong, Hao Shangjiu, Ma Xiong and other troops of Fujian will become the forces that he must solve."

This is a well-known thing and it is almost inevitable. The reason is very simple. From the south to the north, only Zhu Yuanzhang has succeeded since ancient times. Zhu Yuanzhang first wiped out all the heroes before the Northern Expedition. Chen Wen would definitely follow the example if he wanted to fight the Northern Expedition, so as not to have the dilemma of multi-faceted combat during the Northern Expedition.

This is understandable, but for the weak forces like them, they must try their best to develop their own development. After all, it is not anyone who can be like Qian Hongjiao.

"Chen Wen is arrogant. I think you have seen it the previous year. I believe you have heard of his style. There are many cities in our Nanhai County Prince's Mansion in recent years. Whether it is his past style or the current situation, Chen Wen will never tolerate us. Therefore, when the envoy who entered the court went to Guiyang, his father ordered the envoy to make good friends with Sun Kewang."

"Sun Kewang has agreed to join forces to compete with Chen Wen. But we cannot expect this bandit. He annexed Pi Xiong and Wang Kuang's style. If there is any problem, that guy will probably wait for our Nanhai County Prince's Mansion and Kuaiji County Prince's Mansion to reap the benefits of the fisherman after both the defeat. So the father decided to take advantage of the fisherman's fishing waters and contact the interested people in Anlong's mansion to try to lead the old thief to the west, so that the Guangxi and Guangxi will be empty, so that we can have room for development. It seems that before Anlong's mansion has time to move, the old thief decided to go to the car by himself. It can be said that it is a good opportunity for heaven."

This is a matter of no choice. After all, these companies may not be able to compete with Chen Wen together, but they are more likely to be defeated by each one.

In the chaotic times, if you want to survive, you must be self-reliant, rather than relying on the mercy of others. However, Chen Wen's current momentum is too strong, and the surrounding forces are intertwined. If Chen Hu is attracted, it will not be a joke.

"King, prince, now the old thief is gone, and those rebels need not be mentioned, but Geng Jimao, Zhu Chenggong, Hao Shangjiu, Ma Xiong and others, especially the reactions of Kuaiji County Prince's Mansion, must be paid attention to."

"Brother Xu said so much, so I feel the same way."

Xu Erxian and Ban Zhifu were still a little hesitant, while Jin Guang simply looked thoughtful. After watching it for a week, Shang Kexi stood up from the Grand Master's chair.

"We must pay attention to the reactions of the surrounding forces, but now it is our only chance. Now, the old thief has broken through the Tianzhou defense line. There must be a battle between Sun and Li. Chen Wen's heavy troops are gathered in Nanzhili, while Zhu Chenggong is still licking the wounds of last year. Geng Jimao is weak, and 80% is happy to see it. Ma Xiong is already moved. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It is better than waiting for Chen Wen to calmly mobilize the army south and wait for death."

Shang Kexi's intentions have been decided. Chen Wen's killing of prisoners in Lingchi Ma Jinbao in Jinhua, Lingchi King Zhigang in Shaowu, and Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi also represents the principle of this person. They are all murderers of the Guangzhou Massacre. They have participated in the massacre of the city many times before. With Chen Wen's temperament, they will definitely not tolerate them.

If it were other opponents, they might be able to use the ancestral system of the big and small general systems to preserve their own strength, but what Chen Wen has done over the years, whether it is governing the army, punishing the murderers, or even the internal strife in which the army went out and civil servants were in chaos inside, all prompted them to look at the worst future.

In the first month of the year, just when Li Dingguo was still working hard to welcome the throne, Chen Wen's army was on vacation, and even the edict to enthrone the King of Yue had not yet arrived in Jinhua, Shang Kexi suddenly assembled a large army and launched a sudden attack on the various rebel armies in western Guangdong.

When Li Dingguo left Guangdong, he distributed all parts of eastern Guangdong to the Guangdong rebel army, with Guo Zhiqi and Lianchengbi responsible for the control. Among them, the three counties of Lianshan in northern Guangdong were originally the defense zone of the general Ma Bao of Li Dingguo, but now they handed over to the local Yao rebel army; Wencun, Enping County in the south of Zhaoqing Prefecture, Wang Xing, General Hu Ben, has been entrenched for many years, and Li Dingguo simply handed over Enping and Yangchun to the person in charge; Li Changrongze of Hailing Island in Yangjiang County, Zhaoqing Prefecture was divided into Yangjiang County, Pisces Institute and Hailang Institute; and Xinhui, Xinning County and Guanghaiwei in southern Guangzhou were handed over to General Linghai Chen Qice.

Other places were also occupied by various rebel troops. Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi moved the head of the commander and the governor's office to Zhaoqing to lead the overall situation here.

Once Shang Kexi was activated, he had the intention to make up his mind and was taken down by the pioneer by Yunlong before the gate of Zhaoqing Jiancheng was closed. Guo and Lian Lian did not touch them, but just scolded them for their incompetence and put them under house arrest, thus raising the banner of assisting the governor Guo Zhiqi and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Lian Chengbi to rectify the rebel army and attacked from all sides.

On the surface, there were many Ming troops in eastern Guangdong, but in fact they were just a mess. On Shang Kexi, the vassal soldiers of the Pingnan Prince's Mansion had not suffered much loss in recent years and their combat effectiveness was still there. They also merged the Green Camp of Wu Liuqi's troops in Huizhou, Shaozhou and northern Chaozhou and the Navy of Guangdong Navy's deputy general Xu Long. They were powerful.

The strength gap between the two sides was too large, and no one could compete with Shang Kexi's army wherever they went. Almost all of them were defeated in one battle, and even if they were holding on to the city, they could not last for a few days.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, Xu Erxian sneaked into Xinhui, and Chen Qice was forced to fight, lost, and left the city.

On the 19th day of the first lunar month, Shang Zhixin conquered Guangning County, Zhaoqing Prefecture, and the ward was killed.

On the 25th day of the first lunar month, Wang Xing's troops were defeated Enping. Under Ban Zhifu's pursuit, he retreated to Wencun, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and persisted.

On the 29th day of the first lunar month, Shang Kexi invaded Luodingzhou. The defenders requested to surrender and accepted the adaptation of the Prince's Mansion of Nanhai County.

On the first day of the second month, Chen Qice defeated Xinning again and retreated to Guanghaiwei.

On the fourth day of the second month, Ma Xiong, the governor of Wuzhou, responded to Shang Kexi's call and sent troops from Wuzhou to capture the counties.

On the eighth day of the second month, Shang Zhixin defeated the Yaomin armed forces in the three counties of Lianshan, and collected all the land and reorganized surrendered soldiers.

On February 11, Chen Qice was forced to abandon Guanghaiwei under Xu Erxian's army and retreat to the old base of Shang and Xiachuan Island.

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Since mid-February, Shang Kexi's military command was pointed at, and the rebels from all walks of life were invincible. The army headed west, as if they were chasing Li Dingguo. For a moment, only the journey was left to delay Shang Kexi's military command!

Yu Shangkexi has not seen such a refreshing siege in the city for a long time. In fact, there is no way to do this. All the rebels were doing their own things. Originally, there were Li Dingguo, Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi to be responsible for the control. Now Li Dingguo is welcomed, Guo and Lian are captured. The remaining Gaolian and Lei Qiong governor Zhang Xiaoqi, and Zhou Tengfeng, Haibei Dao, did not control the rights of Guangzhou Prefecture, Zhaoqing Prefecture, Wuzhou Prefecture and Luodingzhou. In addition, the combat power gap between the two sides was too large, Shangkexi also held high the banner of Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi, and the advantages from the inside out led to such a phenomenon.

Shang Kexi's army was still advancing westward. After driving Chen Qice into the sea, Xu Erxian stayed in Guangzhou and the southern part of Zhaoqing to continue to suppress the rebel army. Ban Zhifu led the army to continue to advance westward, joining forces with Shang Kexi to capture Gao Lian Lei Qiong's four prefectures, and lifting the flanking threat in order to make great strides into Guangxi. At this time, the governor of the four prefectures, Zhang Xiaoqi, and General Jingxing, Deng Yao, who was entrenched in Lianzhou, had not yet recovered from the chaos of sudden changes...

On Shangchuan Island in southern Guangzhou, this is Chen Qice's old base, where he insisted on fighting against the Qing army for many years. His navy was the best in Guangdong. During the Battle of Xinhui, he killed Gai Yipeng, the general of the Qing Dynasty's Guangdong Navy in Guangzhou Bay, and achieved a good start in the Battle of Xinhui - a great victory in Jiangmen, thus realizing the Ming army's actual control over the sea control of Guangzhou Bay.

With Chen Wen's intervention, the tragedy of Xinhui did not happen, and Xinhui's wealth remained the same. After Li Dingguo recovered Xinhui, he also relied heavily on Chen Qice, and had a bias in food and salary. When he left Guangdong, he was even willing to use the richest Xinhui, the entire western Guangdong province, as the place where Chen Qice's navy eats.

Chen Qice, as a general, has a strong ability, but it is only limited to the navy. Facing the former Pingnan Prince's vassal soldiers who were like wolves and tigers, if his sailors could still fight on land, Xu Erxian, who had been leading troops under Shang Kexi since the Dongjiang Army era, would have been in vain in his life.

It sounds like there is no shame in losing to an opponent who can't beat, but for Chen Qice, this is a failure of Li Dingguo's reliance.

"Damn it, Shang Kexi, I'll take you sooner or later..."

Chen Qice was defeated in the street battle of Xinhui and Xinning City Defense, and suffered many defeats in both battles. If the navy was not strong enough, it provided a certain degree of cover for the defeated soldiers, I was afraid that even returning to the base would be delusional.

Shang Kexi has already announced that anyway, Shang Zhixin will be earlier anyway. There have been such examples in Guangzhou. Li Chengdong and his son died for the Ming Dynasty one after another. The court remembered their good things after all because of the mistakes. However, this time the Shang family father and son were completely unfamiliar wolf cubs, so why don’t he hate him?

Anger touched the wound. The gray-bearded old doctor couldn't even care about the work in his hands. He hurried over to see if the wound broke.

Fortunately, the wound was not opened, so the old doctor was relieved and quickly went back to continue to check the wounds of other injured generals. However, there were still a large number of generals who were slightly injured. As for the serious injuries, they were all in the old wounded clinic on the island and received treatment from other doctors and apprentices with the soldiers.

"Master, being angry will cause the wound to worsen. Let's call the arrogant man named Shang for a few days. We will get this tone sooner or later."

"Brother Sun said that the one with the surname Shang dares to attack us and wait for the King of Xining to come back, and there are some good-looking people."

"That's right, we can't defeat the Land War, but there's no chance that his surname is Shang. When the brothers are well raised, we will follow the general to support the Xining King's army and will sooner or later kill this old boy."

“…”

The Sun brothers mentioned by the generals were nothing else, but Sun Yunxuan, the pirate of Huizhou who had joined forces to attack Xinhui. Over the past year, Sun Yunxuan had completely integrated into Chen Qice's troops. He liked firearms and even knew the artillery at one point. He was soon appointed by Chen Qice as the leader of the artillery team. This time, he organized the gunboats and bombarded Xu Erxian's pursuers in Guanghaiwei, so that Chen Qice's troops could safely retreat to the island.

Sun Yunxuan was still striving to boost morale, but Chen Qice knew more than him. Li Dingguo's return to Guangxi was not a nominal meal, but a return to Anlong to welcome him.

You should know that the emperor has been in Sun Kewang's hands for several years. Sun Kewang's narrow emperor ordered the princes to let Li Dingguo take the emperor away. It is unlikely that he will come back. There will be no chance for at least one or two years. For the Guangdong Ming army, the Guangxi Ming army, who have not been attacked, but it is only a matter of time, Li Dingguo cannot count on it at all.

"You must never sit and wait for death."

After thinking about it secretly, Chen Qice opened his eyes again, and his eyes returned to the sharpness he had before.

"Brother Sun, I have a letter that you need to take a boat to Zhejiang and hand it over to His Highness, the Prince of Kuaiji!"

Prince of Kuaiji?

Sun Yunxuan remembers this name, the famous general in the world, and his achievements are rare in the world. Although their rebel army is very close to the troops of Li Dingguo, everyone privately commented that after three years, Chen Wen's two famous kings were still higher in value than Li Dingguo. And outside Xinhui City, he heard some inside stories from Chen Qice for the first time, which made him remember them vividly.

"Master, Zhejiang is too far away, I'm afraid that the far water will not save the near fire."

Shang Kexi's army was too fierce, and Chen Wen was too far away from here, and it was even more impossible for them to travel through Guangzhou and Shaozhou to enter Nangan to ask Chen Wen for help. According to Shang Kexi's current momentum, when Chen Wen reacted and mobilized a large army to Guangdong, he was afraid that Guangdong and Guangxi had been captured by Shang Kexi.

From the bottom of my heart, Sun Yunxuan also had the desire to meet Chen Wen, the legendary general, but Chen Qice was the general he followed. All the generals here were his brothers who shared hardships. How could he bear to leave them now?

However, after hearing this, Chen Qice shook his head and then said to Sun Yunxuan: "The King of Xining cannot come back. King Yanping suffered losses in Nanjing last year. It was the weakest time. It was impossible for him to work hard to go on an expedition. We cannot count on the others, and they cannot defeat the dog thief Shang Kexi. For the sake of the present, there is only one way to ask the Prince of Kuaiji for help!"

Chen Qice's words aroused deep thoughts from the generals, but Chen Qice did not give them time to think. Instead, he directly asked Sun Yunxuan: "This time we go to Zhejiang, the sky is high and the road is far, and the good and bad luck are unpredictable. There is also the navy of Xu Long's thief intercepting him along the way. I only asked you one question, do you dare or not?!"
Chapter completed!